Top 414 Cognitive Dissonance Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

Humans have two kinds of abilities: physical and cognitive.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

The early adolescence years are crucial for a child's cognitive, emotional and social development.

The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

The cognitive development of the players is enormously important, as well as social competence and character values such as discipline and teamwork.

I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go.

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the way the physical organs of the body develop. That is, in their fundamental character they are innate; their basic form is determined by the genetic structure of the organism. Of course, they grow under particular environmental conditions, assuming a specific form that admits of some variation. Much of what is distinctive among human beings is a specific manner in which a variety of shared cognitive structures develop.

Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my sounds were bathing them in all kinds of dissonance, consonance, resonance, and things like that.

The potential for cognitive and related technologies to help us pursue new business offerings is extraordinary.

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.